Singer songwriter prodigy Sarah Jarosz to play Campbell’s Tavern this weekend

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

SARAH JAROSZ will play Campbell’s Tavern this Saturday July 19 at 8pm as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Featuring X for Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

FEATURING X, the Louth indie-rock/alternative pop quintet, whose song ‘Wild Love’ is clocking up serious hits on YouTube, play the Galway Fringe Festival.

Lisa Dwan - catching ‘the music’ of Beckett

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

GALWAY THEATRE audiences are in for a real treat next week - amid the many fine treats already served up by Galway International Arts Festival - when the Royal Court Theatre come to An Taibhdhearc with Irish actress Lisa Dwan’s acclaimed trilogy of Beckett plays Not I, Footfalls, and Rockaby.

Luka Bloom tonight

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

LUKA BLOOM is heading west to play the Monroe’s Live tonight as part of Galway International Arts Festival.

Palestinian artists exhibit at Galway City Museum

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

“THIS EXHIBITION is a very important artistic event through which we hope to provide an authentic picture of cultural life in Gaza.”

A feast of theatre @ Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

FROM EPIC, ancient, voyages to the ‘girls night out’, from stories of bag ladies to the return of Christ, the Galway Fringe Festival theatre strand has it all.

Factory’s Electronic Music Weekender

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

TWO NIGHTS of international, cutting edge, electronica - involving Greek house, Irish urban, and Belgian techno - take place at Factory.

Luke McMullen exhibition @ Kenny’s

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

HUNTER S Thompson, Johnny Cash, George Bernard Shaw, and half of Angelina Jolie’s head all appear in the new exhibition by former graffiti artist Luke McMullan.

Aindrias de Staic - The Man from Moogaga

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THERE WAS The Man from UNCLE, later there was ‘the man from Del Monte’, but right now there is Aindrias de Staic, and he is The Man from Moogaga.

Praise be! It’s the Dublin Gospel Choir

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THE DUBLIN Gospel Choir have been called “a must-see – who’d have thought gospel would be this cool?” by The Irish Times, and “uplifting” by Hot Press.

Festival exhibitions in UHG

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

TODAY SEES the launch of two exhibitions in UHG, one by Aoife Price, the other by Suzanne Wawra, and both are part of the Galway Fringe Festival.

Liam O’Callaghan and looking at things anew

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

LIAM O’CALLAGHAN’S new exhibition, If and then....(again) seeks to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and encourage viewers to look anew at themselves and the world.

Annie Atkins: Life on the film set

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

When watching a film, one often fails to appreciate the sheer scale of the process and the work that goes into every little detail, every creative intricacy, that fills the screen.

Prose, verse and music at The Poetry Sessions

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

STORIES, POEMS, and music will be on display at the Galway Fringe Festival’s The Poetry Sessions, which run throughout this week.

Róisín Dubh comedy

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

CHRISTIANE O’MAHONEY and Eleanor Tiernan will both be taking to the stage of the Róisín Dubh for two separate comedy shows.

The Last Friday Club @ Monroe’s

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THE LAST Friday Club in Monroe’s Backstage Bar, the clubnight for anyone over 30, returns on Friday July 25 at 10pm.

The club features music from the 1970s to today and next week’s instalment will be a ‘summer cocktail party’ with special drinks promotions. DJ Jon Richards will be spinning the decks.

Alkalinear Records take over Get Boogie

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

GET BOOGIE, the clubnight at Factory, continues its Thursday sessions with tonight’s main act being Ventolyn & Becotyde.

Funk, Soul & Reggae @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

DJ Dave Barry (Shuffle!) will take people from Studio 1 to Studio 54, the barrios of New York to the the soul clubs of Detroit with a packed box of 7” vinyl and Lps.

Wpect 100 per cent more funk, reggae, soul, disco, boogaloo, jump blues and nuggets from everywhere in between giving everyone an excuse to work up a sweat on the dancefloor.

Avant-jazz fusion from Dinosaur

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

AMSTERDAM TRIO Dinosaur will bring their elegant, at times explosive, jazz/folk/rock fusion to County Galway this month at four separate shows.

Earthship - new EP and Galway gigs

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

EARTHSHIP, THE Galway funk-dance-jazz fusionists have just released their new EP, The Proximity Effect, and will mark the occasion with two shows in Galway city.

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